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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1949
Page
5
The annual Reece reunion will be held Sunday July 17 at Kauffman memorial park in Union at 12 30 p m. Ross Reece of New Providence serves as president of the group.
Mrs E Rn Eagan and Mrs Julia Walker hosted a Plastic party with Edna Harding from Cole as demonstrator. A boys quartet sang at Lawn Hill church, and Rev L B Deedrick recorded the numbers. Families from Hampton Point Pleasant Hub Bard Neubauer Ledyard attended a Belmond picnic midway point. Reba Beasley works at Diamond Brothers Eldora. Leonard White took youths to Bangor for a Youth for Christ meeting. A basket dinner in Eldora honored Mrs Chilton of Union, a patient recently improving. Carol Ann Mossman ill in Radcliffe visit by Warren Mossman party.
A new bulletin titled 151 Questions on Cattle Feeding and Marketing is available from the county extension director or the bulletin office at Iowa State college. Rex Beresford, extension beef specialist, authored the work with E. I. Rosenberger noting the Q A format covers basic feeding and management questions and broader marketing topics including cattle purchases. The bulletin is indexed for easy finding and aims to aid both experienced and inexperienced feeders, especially novices.
Birth in Green Castle Missouri 1917 to Lyle Eugeniee McKeehan and death in Des Moines in July. Marriage to Ruth Kock in 1945 produced son Dennis. Funeral at Whitten Methodist Church with Rev. Biersborn. interment Benson Cemetery. Whitwood reunion at Pine Lake lodge with ~95 attendees. dinner, dances, dialogues, business meeting set annual reunions. Various society and visiting notes from Whitten area including church mission group and neighbors. Diane Long birthday noted. other locals visiting Marshalltown Hubbard and Pine River.
All 16 Hardin County Girls 4 H clubs are preparing demonstrations with guidance letters from leaders. Rosemary Faris and Audrey Copeland were chosen to represent their club at the county fair with the demonstration Altering A Pattern. Mrs Leonard DeVries will represent Hardin county at a July health meeting in Ames hosted by the Iowa State Department of Health.
The county Farm Bureau schedules a series of 4-H activities from July 16 to July 22. Concord Cheerful Chums and Tipton Top Pers 4-H clubs hold picnics and meetings at various homes and schools, with health talks, demonstrations, garment displays, and achievement days led by 4-H members and leaders at N P High School, Lawn Hill Church, Edgewood Place, Town Falls, and other local venues.
One hundred sixty boys from Marshall county completed a four year camping period at Meeker s camp. Ray Nyhan of Marshalltown served as camp director. Seven older boys led ages nine to sixteen with daily activities of swimming boating hiking softball volleyball handicrafts campfires vesper services and Sunday worship. Blanche and Ethel Cox supervised kitchen operations and most food was bought in Eldora. Sixty girls from Marshalltown YWCA began a two week camping session starting Tuesday.
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